Global budgets for hospitals reduced expenditures and utilization for some Medicare subpopulations with complex health and social needs, yet disparities existed for some subgroups.
Trust, flexible funding, cross-sector support, sustainability, and an explicit focus on structural racism are identified as key components of effective community engagement to advance health equity.
Offers practical recommendations to improve telemedicine interventions to be more equitable for diverse populations, particularly those with low incomes.
Toolkit details how hospitals and health systems can use patient race, ethnicity, and language data to advance health equity and eliminate disparities.
When identifying patients with complex health needs for interventions, algorithms that rely on cost data as a proxy for health status may lead to under-identification of Black patients.